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Kennedi

#709 in 2025Girls' name

Head + ugly, through Kennedy

Kennedi has been given to 15,552 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #709 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 848 recorded.

Babies named Kennedi, 2025

1 in 8,330

Kennedi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kennedi: meaning, origin, and history

Head + ugly, through Kennedy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kennedi means

Kennedi belongs to the name family reached through Kennedi → Kennedy. Its meaning is “head + ugly”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kennedi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kennedy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,537 girls were recorded with the name Kennedi between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 848 in 2015; its best national rank was #387 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #524 in 2020 to #709 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #387 in 2015 to #709 in 2025.

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Kennedi between 2004 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2004; its best national rank was #12,345 in 2004.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kennedi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,330
398 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,040
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#709
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,775 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kennedi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,775 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kennedi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kennedis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kennedi was born before 2013 — so the typical Kennedi is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15,537
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (7,083).

Is Kennedi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−24
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−185
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−322
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.9%
Peak was 2015 (848)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#387
2015

Spellings of Kennedi

Kennedi is not the most common spelling — Kennedy is, with 74.4% against Kennedi's 12.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kennedi is used

Across 2016–2025, Kennedi was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 415 girls, against 1 in 2,356 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 25,000).

4241 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 415
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 641
  3. 3Alabama1 in 725
  4. 4Georgia1 in 870
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 926
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 1,124
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 1,149
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 1,449

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Kennedi is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 96% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kennedi around the world

Where Kennedi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2020
    #4,535
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    2006–2007
    #744
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1995–2023
    #1,786
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kennedi

People whose public names include Kennedi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kennedi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#709
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 185
Best rank ever
#387
2015
Peak year
2015
848 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,537
Count in 2025
398

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,345
2004
Peak year
2004
5 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kennedi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KenediKensleyKenzieKendalKenishaKendallKenleyKennaKennedyKendylKeniaKennadiKenyaKendellKenadeeKennadyKenzleyKenzleeKendyllKennethKensleeKendraKenleighKenlee

Names with a curve like Kennedi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kennedi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DylanJazlynMaliyahJimenaAleenaSkylaMadelynnElleDayanaAinsleyJaliyahMadilyn

Sibling names for Kennedi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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